I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.

In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.

Women should not be suppressed because they are women, because they have children and because of men. Then I am a feminist. But when it comes to the African concept, for the moment, I say 'feminist plus'. We have so many other problems.

When I came to England it wasn't what it is now, then the black people were very rarely strong. I had a personal shock because England wasn't what I expected it to be... where people lived like Jane Austen.

I'm not just a feminist - I'm a feminist plus.

Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.

Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.